Some of the contents were taken from the E-catalogs of ANDON Studio, the product of our Principal, Famic Technologies Inc., and also from topics on Industry 4.0 on Google. Hytec Power Inc. is the Exclusive Distributor in the Philippines.
Why do we need our company to be considered as Industry 4.0?
Before understanding too much deeper into the what, why, and how of Industry 4.0, it’s beneficial to first understand how exactly manufacturing has evolved since the 1800s. There are four distinct industrial revolutions that the world either has experienced or continues to experience today.
Evolution of Industry from 1.0 to 4.0
The First Industrial Revolution, or Industry 1.0
The first industrial revolution happened between the late 1700s and early 1800s. During this period of time, manufacturing evolved from focusing on manual labor performed by people and aided by work animals to a more optimized form of labor performed by people through the use of water and steam-powered engines and other types of machine tools.
The Second Industrial Revolution, or Industry 2.0
In the early part of the 20th century, the world entered a second industrial revolution with the introduction of steel and use of electricity in factories. The introduction of electricity enabled manufacturers to increase efficiency and helped make factory machinery more mobile. It was during this phase that mass production concepts like the assembly line were introduced as a way to boost productivity.
The Third Industrial Revolution, or Industry 3.0
Starting in the late 1950s, a third industrial revolution slowly began to emerge, as manufacturers began incorporating more electronic—and eventually computer—technology into their factories. During this period, manufacturers began experiencing a shift that put less emphasis on analog and mechanical technology and more on digital technology and automation software.
The Fourth Industrial Revolution, or Industry 4.0
In the past few decades, a fourth industrial revolution has emerged, known as Industry 4.0. Industry 4.0 Takes the emphasis on digital technology from recent decades to a whole new level with the help of interconnectivity through the Internet of Things (IoT), access to real-time data, and the introduction of cyber-physical systems. Industry 4.0 offers a more comprehensive, interlinked, and holistic approach to manufacturing. It connects physical with digital, and allows for better collaboration and access across departments, partners, vendors, product, and people. Industry 4.0 empowers business owners to better control and understand every aspect of their operation, and allows them to leverage instant data to boost productivity, improve processes, and drive growth.
Currently, many new designs and innovations have been developed in the field of science and technology that played a great part in modernizing and upgrading the daily lives of the people and activities in the different industries. It made our life easy, simple and advantageous. Without technology, our lives would not have been simpler and easier. Modern culture and civilization have become dependent on science and technology because they have become an integral part of life according to the needs and needs of the community.
Emergence of the Andon Studio in Manufacturing/Production Plant
Andon Studio is a software solution designed for Industry 4.0.
It provides a modular and scalable architecture that offers real-time control and monitoring of production lines that Improve overall productivity. This allows manufacturers to simplify the integration of industry 4.0 by entirely computerizing their factories. Andon Studio aims to create a globally interconnected system with the goal of maximizing Productivity
Smart Factory Benefits
Productivity
Computerizing the factories helps to maintain productivity by preventing downtime, reducing rejects, optimizing operation, and better identifying targets for investment.
Flexibility
Digitally modeling a company and integrating its communication channels provide greater factory flexibility and responsiveness allowing you to react in real-time to changing market conditions, supplier and sub-contractor availability or personalizing products for customers.
Traceability
Smart sensors and the Internet of things (IoT) allow a company to monitor a product through its entire life cycle. Traceability is improved by offering tools complementing logging of actions, events, and measurements.
The Power of Industry 4.0 at Your Fingertips
Train Future Industry 4.0 Players
Andon Studio™ meets your Industry 4.0 learning needs in industrial engineering, operations management, business processes and quality. It enables a better understanding of notions, concepts and the applications of industrial digitization.
Flexible, easy to use, modular and configurable, Andon Studio™ is a unique training solution. It simplifies the complexity of learning, making it an engaging and interactive activity for both teacher and student.
Data Acquisition
Andon Studio™ interacts with your lab equipment and tools through a standardized OPC communication interface. This allows the student to access, analyze and use that data for the purpose of supervision, control interaction in an industrial context.
Service Request Management
Configure your service requests according to different criteria: manual launch, automatic launch, periodicity, etc.
Real-Time Production/Operation Monitoring
Visualize in real-time the status of equipment, operations, and processes as well as key performance indicators in order to determine how to calculate them, the effect of each applied parameter, and to have access to the traceability of actions and events
Work Process Management
Learn how to configure different business processes and how to use them. Create your own process via a graphical interface to draw the process’s workflow diagram and set each of its activities and conditions.
Internet of Things (IoT/IIoT)
Connect your equipment, devices and infrastructure to the Internet of Things so that you can become familiar with the concept, apply it in a lab, and learn more about its use and potential.
Alerts and Notifications
Send and receive the desired information in the form of alerts and notifications for each type of request. Highlight the importance of speed and efficiency in information sharing that is at the heart of Industry 4.0.
Precise Identification of Stop Reasons
Standard stop reasons by machine type can be configured by the students. During a lab with physical or virtual equipment, stop reasons are detected and automatically communicated to the students; they can update or modify them. This allows a better understanding of the different possible reasons and how to standardize them.
Inspection and Quality
Customize your digital forms and their activation requirements before integrating them into the processes to improve students’ understanding of the quality process.
Custom Reports Generation
Add your custom reports in graphical, text or table format to pre-existing reports, to train learners on a wide variety of reports and information to analyze.
Go Paperless
Design and integrate into processes digital forms with activation conditions. Attach Photos and comments to them. Students will understand the importance of digitalization and will practice it.
Categorization and Access to Documentation
Access data of connected machines, procedures, reports, and all types of documentation to familiarize yourself with the different types of specialized documents, and practice working on a paperless environment in line with the current Industry 4.0 digital era.
Data Logging
Save important data related to various events and activities in a centralized database in order to preserve a history, thus ensuring optimal traceability. Students will practice doing post-mortem analysis and will learn the importance of historical data.
How Andon Studio Responds to Your Programs and Courses
Industrial Engineering
▪ Manufacturing methods, just in time, Kanban, push or pull flows
▪ Configuration and implementation of industrial processes
▪ Different industrial services and interactions between them
▪ Operation management
▪ Integration with ecosystem
Industry 4.0
▪ Concept and tools of Industry 4.0
▪ Interoperability, connection and communication
▪ Digitalization and digital ecosystem
▪ Cloud Technologies and Internet of Things (IoT)
▪ Supervision and real-time calculation
▪ Integration of new processes
▪ Different services under 4.0
▪ Analysis of the potential of 4.0
▪ Cyber Hybrid Factory (CHP)
Continuous Improvement
▪ Quality functions in the company
▪ Performance indicators
▪ Quality process
▪ Configuration, activation and filling of inspection forms
▪ Methods of improvement: Poka-Yoke, Kaizen, etc.
▪ Creation of quality improvement processes
Wins and Benefits of Andon Studio
Trainees
▪ Master the concept and notions of industrial engineering and of Industry 4.0 in a realistic and comprehensive environment, including operations, maintenance, logistics and management.
▪ Become familiar with agile production methods based on flexible, automated and interconnected units.
▪ Work with the main technological tools used in the context of Industry 4.0.
▪ Train in a safe and controlled environment.
▪ Try an unlimited number of scenarios / exercises.
▪ Configure and set up various processes.
▪ Learn how to do post-mortem analysis for continuous improvement.
Institutions
▪ Offer more comprehensive training with applications and practices.
▪ Create online training environments in line with Industry 4.0, using specialized software.
▪ Be flexible and able to adapt and personalize the training content, providing a more global offer.
▪ Make the training environment available to students and companies.
▪ Create a skilled workforce.
Teachers
▪ Rely on a realistic training environment, representative of the Industry 4.0 requirements.
▪ Have the flexibility they want in their teaching methods.
▪ Explain the concepts easily.
▪ Reproduce any type or scenario of desired operations within a plant.
▪ Adapt training to the real needs of the trainees.
▪ Cover the needs of different departments with the same tool: production, operation, design, maintenance and management.
Nowadays, technology is used everywhere including education, communication, entertainment, medical field and even in homes. Technology has brought many positive changes in our lives. Innovations across different industries are developing faster rather than slowing down. It is imperative that businesses are able to adopt emerging technologies to be on top of the fierce competition ahead. In 2020, almost a third of the data is already passing through the cloud and within five years, there will be billions of smart connected devices in the world. Imagine what you can do with all this available information. Processing and analyzing these data can unlock potential opportunities to improve businesses and humankind.
In closing, the companies and education institutions should strongly consider migrating into the Fourth Industrial Revolution to be able to modernize and reap the benefits of being able to make data-driven decisions in a timely manner through leveraging state-of-the-art cloud platforms and technologies.
References: https://www.famictech.com/en/Products/Andon-Studio/Professional-Edition
Industrial Revolution notes from Google.
